From Pixels to Calories: Building an Automated Meal Tracking Pipeline with YOLOv8 and GPT-4o

Let’s be honest: manually logging every single gram of rice or slice of pizza into an app is the fastest way to kill a diet. It’s tedious, prone to human error, and frankly, we have better things to do. But what if your phone could "see" your plate and calculate the macros for you? In this tutorial, we are building a state-of-the-art Computer Vision pipeline. We’ll combine the lightning-fast object detection of YOLOv8 with the incredible reasoning power of the GPT-4o API . By the end of this pos